78 THE FORELEG AND SHOULDER. 



possibly the other vein also inflame, and become 

 impervious. 



The Foreleg and Shoulder. 



Grooms and blacksmiths make the shoulder 

 the seat of every lameness in the foreleg, when 

 their acuteness is not sufficient to enable them 

 to discover it any where else : but the fact is the 

 shoulder is very rarely diseased, and hence, in 

 an examination for unsoundnesses, it is a part 

 not much looked to. Tumours on the seat of 

 the collar, however, are not unfrequently met 

 with ; and when large, they must either be cut 

 out, or a collar must be used of such a construc- 

 tion as to avoid pressing upon them. Except 

 under such circumstances, a tumour of this kind 

 does not make a horse unsound ; if he is bought 

 entirely for the saddle, then it is only an eye- 

 sore ; but if he is bought to go in harness, 

 and the tumour be of such a size or nature as in 

 the least to unfit him for wearing the collar, 

 then the horse is unsound. 



